Description extracted from Wikipedia:

Name

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Founded

remont, California, United States

Location City

New Taipei City

Location Country

Taiwan, ROC

Industry

Computer hardware

VIA Technologies Inc. (c=å¨çé»å­|p=WÄishÃ¨ng DiÃ nzÇ) is a Taiwanese American manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory, and is part of the Formosa Plastics Group. It is the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets. As a fabless semiconductor company, VIA conducts research and development of its chipsets in-house, then subcontracts the actual (silicon) manufacturing to third-party merchant foundries, such as TSMC.